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There are thin spaces, hair spaces etc. in unicode. Multiple of those will just look like a normal space. Only if you tried to select them one by one would you
by virtualritz 4y ago
There are thin spaces, hair spaces etc. in unicode.
Multiple of those will just look like a normal space.
Only if you tried to select them one by one would you become aware. But that's not what people usually do when they C&P a block of text
That said: not sure how they will look in a text-only (no WYSIWYG) editor or a mail client set to display raw text.
- myself248 4y agoOr just paste into Notepad first and then copy from there to the destination. I find myself doing that as a quick-and-easy way to strip formatting, but it also knocks out a lot of weird characters. The luxuries of living in iso-latin-1, I suppose.
- upofadown 4y agoJust checked and emacs running in a terminal displays the different sorts of spaces in unicode as a single space with an underline. I think that a goal for any sort of a text editor intended for programming should be to mark possibly problematic text somehow. Mutt just shows them all as spaces...